Shanqu holds Vajra Bodhisattva Thangka

[Shanqu Holding Vajra Bodhisattva Thangka]

Shanqu Holding Vajra Bodhisattva Thangka, 18th century, Tibet, cloth, color, 127 cm high, 76 cm wide, 66 cm vertical and 44 cm horizontal. The old collection of the Qing Palace
This holding Vajra Bodhisattva in Tibetan language is called “good interest Vajra hand”. It has a blue body, an angry face, three eyes wide open, a grinning mouth and curling tongue, red hair in flames, a crown of jewels, a snake armpit around the body, a tiger skin skirt around the waist, a Vajra pestle in the right hand, a Vajra bell in the left hand, and a standing posture on the throne of Taiyang Lotus. The upper bound is Sakyamuni Buddha and Maitreya Buddha, and the lower bound is the king of many stories. On the back of the Thangka, there is a white silk sign with four-body ink script in Han, Manchu and Mongolian. The Chinese text reads: “On the seventh day of August of the forty-fifth year of Qianlong’s reign, Panchen Erdeni entered the Danshuk to worship the benefit portrait holding Vajra Bodhisattva. The fourth from the right”.

善趣手持金刚菩萨唐卡